Yet, we know that peace is not something that comes to us from weather or even from the absence of war. Peace comes from within.

Now I pierce the darkness, new beings appear,The earth recedes from me into the night,I saw that it was beautiful, and I see that what is not the   earth is beautiful.-Walt Whitman (Leaves of Grass – begun in 1855, completed in 1891 – Painting – Dream of Joseph, by Rembrandt)    We are so locked…

How can we develop cultures of caring that transcend “likability” so that every patient in need receives loving care?

At first glance, the idea that people might prefer chains over freedom seems appalling. But a careful look at most of life experience says that is the choice many of us often make.

Only Love can enable us to live as true healers. That is why we must always seek to live Love, not fear.

Apologies to readers for posting the Open Forum late. There was a temporary difficulty accessing our system. Thank you for your patience and dedication to the Journal.-erie

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. – Henry David Thoreau (1854)    I encountered Thoreau, as have many others, through his book, Walden. It came into my hands in my early schooling. Reading it, I fell to day day-dreaming about the idyllic life…

   I encountered them in the store. Three ordinary vegetables who looked anything but ordinary to my beholding eyes and close touch. Beholding. It’s an elegant and noble sounding word. Beholding the rapture brings the weight of the religious since some think of the rapture as an ascension of Christ.    But a more common…

Today’s meditation was written by Cathy Self, Senior Vice-President for the Baptist Healing Trust.      The words of St. Francis of Assisi hang as a touchpad at my door’s entrance: pax et buonum – peace and all good. These are the words St. Francis of Assisi is said to have used in leave taking…